A special show, shown on BBC2 as part of a 'Granadaland' evening, was arranged to set
the team who won the final Bamber Gascoigne series,
Keble College, Oxford (though with the four champions replaced with a new team
of undergraduates) against
four celebrities ("Graduates") who had appeared on the show as students (Alastair Little, John Simpson, Stephen Fry,
Charles Moore). Repeated on 4th August 1993.

1st January 1997

Imperial, London 1996

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Punctuating the 1997 season there was a transatlantic match between the
1996 champions, Imperial College, London, and the 1996 winners of College Bowl,
the US equivalent.

In the Christmas break of the 1998 series there was a match between the four finalists of the
"final" series of Mastermind (Clare Ockwell, Andrea Weston, Colin Cadby, Anne Ashurst) and the
1997 champions Magdalen College, Oxford (Colin Andress, Gwilym Thear, Jim Adams, Alison Reeves).

Also during the festive hiatus of the 1998 series there was a match between the "four most outstanding contestants from last year's
series" from University Challenge and its US equivalent College Bowl.
Representing the UK were Martin Heighway (Open), Stephen Pearson (Manchester),
Cormac Bakewell (Queen's, Belfast), and Colin Andress (Magdalen, Oxford).
College Bowl sent Eric Tentarelli (Cornell), Robert Margolis (Texas at Dallas),
John Harris (Virginia), and Mark Staloff (Harvard).

21st December
1998

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Continuing the Christmas specials, during the 1999 series was a match between
the winners of the first
ever series, Leicester (Madalene Moore, née Hall, John Hewitt, Geoffrey Ford, Oliver Andrew),
and the champions of the 1998 series, Magdalen College, Oxford
(Paul O'Donnell, Phil Jones, Sarah Fitzpatrick, Alex de Jongh).

1st January 1999

Tabloids

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The participants in the 1999 season's now-traditional 'special' were: Jane Moore (The Sun), Peter
Hutchens (The Express), Ann Leslie (Daily Mail) and Tony Parsons (The Mirror)
for the Tabloids, and Decca Aitkinhead (The Guardian), Libby Purves (The Times),
Boris Johnson (Daily Telegraph) and Richard Ingrams (The Observer) for the
Broadsheets.

As of 2014, two institutions have won the series four times, and a special "Champion of Champions" game pitted Magdalen College, Oxford against Manchester, each consisting of one member from each of the winning teams. They were:Magdalen, Oxford: Matthew Chan (2011), Freya McClements (2004), Jim Adams (1997), Sarah Healey (nee Fitzpatrick) (1998)Manchester: Henry Pertinez (2009), Gareth Aubrey (2006), Tristan Burke (2012), Adam Barr (2013)